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Danielle Pieratti
Poetry

Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

Danielle Pieratti's 'Rubric for Burying a Hen' is a heartbreaking account of what it is to fail to sustain someone or something in our care.

Tagged Death, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood, self-acceptanceLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Carol Barrett – Esther Talks to Her Unborn Child

August 7, 2022August 4, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Carol Barrett's poem is spoken in the voice of biblical Queen Esther, from the Tanakh or Old Testament Book of Esther.

Tagged Bible, Hebrew, hope, Judaism, mother, motherhood, parenthood, Poem, poet, Poetry, prophecyLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Laura Johnson – To the Daughter I Never Had

July 24, 2022July 23, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Iowa poet Laura Johnson's "To the Daughter I Never Had" is a heart-rending work of what could have been, of loss, absence, and missed opportunities.

Tagged absence, daughter, Death, Emptiness, loss, love, parenthood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kit Evans – When We Go to That Museum You Liked

March 27, 2022March 24, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like the all-encompassing color field paintings of Mark Rothko mentioned in Kit Evans' poem, this little piece commands our attention, while also leaving things unsaid.

Tagged art, artwork, healing, innocence, loss, love, parenthood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
All About Love

A Love Letter to Nathaniel

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY KATE TAGAI - Love only needs an instant to unfurl, and no one knows this better than the mother of a child she only knew for a few days.

Tagged Death, grief, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood2 Comments
Philip Booth
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Philip Booth – First Lesson

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

A father teaches his daughter the art of buoyancy and incants a blessing for her survival.

Tagged Advice, blessing, Children, love, parenthood, Poetry1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Cristina Legarda – Mary

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Cristina Legarda's tender poem "Mary" is written from the viewpoint of the mother of Jesus Christ, as she looks back with a heart full of love and sadness at moments with her divine child.

Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, jesus, loss, love, Mary, miracles, motherhood, parenthood, Poem, Poetry, SadnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

August 15, 2021August 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Written during the peak of the pandemic, Katie Bowers' poem touches on the challenges of faith and belief, parenting and childhood.

Tagged Belief, blessing, chakra, childhood, Children, faith, innocence, openness, parenthood, piousness, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality1 Comment
Kelly Joslyn
Featured Poetry

Kelly Joslyn – Before the Hunt

June 27, 2021June 22, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Kelly Joslyn's quiet and simple poem Before the Hunt is a childhood reminiscence of her father. The child's early-morning attentiveness to her father extends to the dim lighting and the smell of the tangerine, like looking at an old Polaroid of something from childhood.

Tagged child, childhood, father, fatherhood, gentleness, memory, moment, morning, parenthood, Quiet, Simplicity2 Comments
All About Love

Three-Pack as Another Name for Beauty

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOCELYN ULEVICUS An errand for her dying mother takes a daughter shopping for underwear.

Tagged Children, Death, hospital, love, mother, parenthood1 Comment

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